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Discussion on: Role of Java in modern web development

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Kevin Gilpin

The job of server side languages is to glue the front end to the data store. It matters very little how fast of a language you use. What does it really do? Parse a JSON message, issue some SQL queries (with a LIMIT clause), correlate the result and generate some JSON. Then put it back on the wire. So you need a fast HTTP parser, fast JSON, and fast database driver. That’s about it.